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Example sentences for: surly

How can you use “surly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"I could see no sign of the Planet attitude, no surly looks in the eyes of the kids behind the cash register," she writes.
Drug policy is boring, but a fight between a saucy blue blood and a surly redneck is fun.
Volpes ( volpe fox) were cunning, Orsinos ( orso bear) lumbering, Manzos ( manzo bullock) taciturn, Botolinos ( botolo snapping cur) irascible, Cagnas ( cagna bitch) surly, and Buffas ( buffa Sicilian dialect for toad) detestable.
As a POW, McCain kept up his habit of surly resistance, constantly drawing beatings and time in solitary confinement for communicating with other prisoners and taunting his jailers.
Indeed, the grandeur and flashing wit of the surly Florentine and the enigmatic Englishman have much in common.